Puzzle.



E. O. BULMAN.

PUZZLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 20, 1914.

Patented July 20, 1915.

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'J ATTORNEY.

COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH C0..WASH|NGTON. D. c.

ELVAH O. BULMAN, 0F GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

PUZZLE. 7

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 20, 1915.

Application filed May 2 0, 1914. Serial No. 839,688.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELVAH O. BULMAN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county ofKent and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements inPuzzles, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to puzzles, and its object is to provide anew, useful 2nd interesting puzzle and apparatus there- This object isattained by, and my invention finds a preferable embodiment in, theapparatus hereinafter described and illus trated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of such apparatus; and Fig. 2is a vertical section of the same on line AA of Fig. 1.

I provide a suitable board 1, on which are displayed a central markedposition 2 and a number of marked positions on each side thereof. In theform illustrated there are three positions numbered respectively 3, 4,and 5, extending from one side of the central position 2, and a likenumber, 6, 7 and 8, extending from the other side of the said centralposition. These various marked positions in the form illustrated, aredisposed in a straight line, but they may be arranged in any desireddirection or line.

The positions on one side of the central position are preferablydistinguished from those on the other side, as by suitable coloring; forinstance, those on the right hand side may be colored red, and those onthe left hand side may be colored black.

Iprovide as many playing pieces as there are side positions, such pieces9,10 and 11 being distinguished (as by coloring corresponding to that ofthe side position 3, 4: and 5 on one side) from the other playing pieces12, 13 and llwhich may be colored correspondingly to the other sidepositions 6, 7 and 8. The red pieces 9, 10 and 11 are placed upon thered side positions 3, 4t and 5, and the black pieces 12, 13 and 14- areplaced on the black side positions 6, 7 and 8, the puzzle being to movesuch pieces so that all the red pieces may occupy the black positionsand all the black pieces the red positions, moving only one piece at atime, jumping only one piece at a time.

The puzzle is solved by the following moves in the following order: Fromposition 3 to central position 2: from position 8 to position 3: fromposition 7 to position 8: from central position 2 to position 7: fromposition 4: to central position 2: from position 5 to position 4: fromposition 3 to position 5; from position 8 to position 3; from position 6to position 8: from position 7 to position 6: from central position 2 toposition 7 from position 4 to central position 2: from position 3 toposition 4: from position 8 to position 3: from central position 2 toposition 8.

Preferably the board 1 is formed of heavy paper or cardboard withportions 15 and 16 at the ends, such cardboard being perforated, as at18, to permit the ready separation of the portions 15 and 16 from thebody of the board 1. Preferably the board 1 is out through with dies insuch manner as to form the playing pieces (as shown in the portions 15and 16 at each end of the board 1,), the cutting edges of the dieshowever being interrupted at one or more points, as 19, so that theboard is not cut at such points: the playing pieces, however, may bereadily detached from the board by breaking or tearing the paper atthese points 19.

Not confining myself to details of construction shown or described, Iclaim 1. An apparatus for a puzzle comprising a board displaying acentral marked position, and two series each of three marked sidepositions, extending from said central position, and playing piecescorresponding in number to the side positions and distinguishinglydivided into two divisions.

2. In apparatus of the character described, a board cut through to formthe periphery of a playing piece, the cutting being interrupted in aportion of such periphery,

whereby the playing piece is adapted to be,

readily detached from the board by breaking off said interruptedportion.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing wit- CYRUS 'W. Bron,

MARION A. THOMPSON.

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- Washington, I). O.

